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TIL in 2010 the Walt Disney Company nearly sold the ABC network, the sale was cancelled because of an FBI investigation into insider trading

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18ZD TIL The United States in 1964 and again in 1966 conducted nuclear tests - in Mississippi.
loBlK TIL A man received a heart transplant from a donor who committed suicide. The recipient married the widow of the donor and committed suicide 12 years after the transplant.
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